The car in the first picture says Beaver Energy on the side. You start a new business Marcus? I always thought running a gas line down the A pillar was a good idea rather than trying to snake piping up from underneath. Better if it fed right through the top of the hood with a coupler so it could be swung out of the way to open the hood.
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https://www.driveonwood.com/classifieds/beaver-energy
Well it was once a $25, USD you build DIY book offering up on the DOW ~March 2015.
I can find it on a DOW search for classifieds.
I can find it on a general Internet search for Beaver Energy woodgas.
I figure they are gone poof now. I never bought their book. Never even seen thier book.
Interesting that they woodgassed a modern EFI vehicle. I never saw any on-roads video put up. Just stills pictures at the salt-flats speed-trials. It was relatively slow.
TomH. going over the top I’d go down thru the top edge of a fender. Then turn and go thru the inner fender.
I think they went down down and then across the front of vehicle for maybe, to them, a reason. Even if that was not to hack into virgin sheet metal.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Some oldies.
Kalle gasifier.
Imbert at sea.
Sea water gas cooler.
Gas filter under a bench.
Japanese wood gasifier “Jiko”
Jiko on truck.
Jiko “built-in” on bus, probably no need for a heater.
Gasified trucks and buses, Japan.
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Woodgas in Italy.
Alfa Romeo, charcoal gasifier developed by professor Mario Ferraguti. Built by Alfa engineer Vittorio Jano.
The Alfa Romeo raced at Mille Miglia 1939. (On charcoal!)
Ferraguti built a stealth gasifier for Fiat 500 Topolino.
And for Fiat crawler.
He also built gasifier for the presidents bullet-proof car.
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göran , thank you for the pictures…interesting that this gasifiers are not so high,maybee they have a nozzle on each side , so two smaller glow balls inside instead of one big…and this allows a lower hopper, maybee combined with something like a crossdraft system ?
have you a design that shows the inner parts?
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Hi giorgio, no, i have no drawings or pic’s of the construction. But i guess cross-draft with fireproof clay built hearth, (same clay/mortar as used in industrial iron melting)
This was the common way to build early gasifiers.
The hot zone became larger as troubles with the ceramic hearths raised.
Cross-draft was very common, and water-cooled nozzle was standard.
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